FETISH[oes]

A peek in my bag...

Meyers vs Rice

Taken from here.

This is a weird idea i've had in my head for a while. I thought i'd share it with you.

• FADE IN:

  EXT. A STREET IN NEW ORLEANS, PRESENT DAY-NIGHT

  LESTAT DE LIONCOURT, a beautiful seductive blond vampire is walking down a deserted street in the French Quarter. He is looking for his latest kill. There is no one else on the street with him.

  Or is there? Footsteps are heard int he distance. Lestat turns. A victim? Lestat hides in the shadows and pounces on the boy walking down the street. there is a scuttle, Lestat pins him to the floor, and just as he is about to feed on him, the boy speaks.

  BOY
  Don't! I'm one of you!

  LESTAT
  (Speaks like a cross between a new orleans boatman and Sam Spade. )
  What do you mean?

  BOY
  I'm a vampire! My name is Edward Cullen.

  LESTAT
  I'm sorry! My name's Lestat de Lioncourt. I mistook you for a human. Come, hunt with me.

  EDWARD
  I'm sorry, i'd love to, but i don't drink human blood.

  LESTAT
  (moment of silence)
  Don't drink human blood? How do you survive?

  EDWARD
  Every week my father takes me and my family hunting, and we drink animal blood.

  LESTAT
  (moment of silence. then laughs histerically)
  Animal blood! Animal blood! But human blood is so tasty--the act of taking it is so sensual, better than sex. Many a fine hour have i spent feasting on mortals! It is what we vampires are for. And you're seventy years old and still living with a coven! Vampires are solitary creatures, there's no way we can coexist!

  EDWARD
  Not me! I am in love with a mortal and i will not drink human blood!

  LESTAT
  In love....with a mortal?

  EDWARD
  Her name is Bella Swan.

  LESTAT
  I see...but surely you're planning on turning her?

  EDWARD
  I will never share my curse with Bella! I love her too much.

  LESTAT
  Vampirism is not a curse! You must enjoy your immortality. ( pause) You remind me of Louis. Except not as tortured and philosophical. You're a boring teenage version of Louis. Do you know that?

  EDWARD
  Who's Louis?

  LESTAT
  One of my lovers. Except not really. He's in love with Claudia. But she's dead, and it's kinda my fault. I'm madly in love with him. Because he reminds me of Nicolas. Also dead. My fault as well. But what do you know of this sort of thing, mon petit?

  EDWARD
  .....I tried to kill myself once.

  LESTAT
  So have i. Did you step into the sun? i did, only to find that due to consuming the blood of the mother of all vampires, i am too strong and cannot be killed. Therefore, i am doomed never to die, even if i want to.

  EDWARD
  I stepped into the sun so people would see me sparkling like diamonds and hopefully kill me.

  LESTAT
  You sparkle in sunlight....so you can go out during the day?

  EDWARD
  Sure, i do it all the time.

  LESTAT
  (lunges at Edward with all his preturnatural strengh)
  You bastard! Do you know what i would do to see the sun again!
  Don't you understand somehting, vampirism comes with benefits, such as immortality, telepathy, things like that, but it also comes at a price, and one of those is that YOU CANNOT SEE THE SUN, OR YOU DIE! That's what's wrong with your stupid vampires--it's too easy for you! You can surivie on miniscual amounts of blood--we have to kill to live. You can go out during the day--we burn if we see the sun. You can have sex--we are sterile. We are tortured souls--you play baseball.

  EDWARD
  Well we have warewolves chasing after us....

  LESTAT
  It's been done!

  EDWARD
  And i have an incurable thirst for my beloved's blood, a thirst so dangerous, i left her once to protect her and--

  LESTAT
  Oh, really? Is that the extent of your troubles? I awoke the Queen Of the Damed with my kick-ass violin playing, who then proceeded to destroy the world, while i watched helplessly. What have you ever done that coould constitute conflict?

  EDWARD
  THere was a vampire trying to feed on my girl once...

  LESTAT
  Laisse il! Let him! No one likes your stupid Bella anyway! Now Claudia, there's a fully developed charecter who has charecter traits other than ' is in love with Edward.'

  EDWARD
  But--

  LESTAT
  I have had enough of your angsty teenage vampire problems!
  

  Lestat focuses really hard and sets Edward on fire, since he can do that since the third book. Edward burns uncontrollably from the inside out and dies. BELLA SWAN hears the rucus and runs out of the house.

  BELLA
  Edward! Oh, Edward!

  Lestat pounces on the annoying teenage bitch and drinks her blood. He smacks his lips, fixes his hair, and gets up to go, setting both bodies on fire with his awesome power of pyrokenisis to destroy the evidence. Lestat then goes home and all the vampires celebrate with a huge vampire party that their angsty teenage rip offs are dead. Armand brings over Time Bandits to watch for the millionth time, and everyone hits him.

  FADE OUT:

  Just a little fantasy. What do you think?

Love Actually

Fun fact: the relationships from Love Actually are meant to convey the many types of love. For example: love at first sight, unrequited love, infatuation, etc.

There are at least a dozen forms of love depicted in the movie:

Marital Love: Keira Knightley marrying her hubby


Unrequited Love: Keira Knightley and her husband's best friend


Love at First Sight: Hugh Grant (the Prime Minister) and his tea and biscuits server


Workplace Love: John and Judy, the standins for the sex scenes that fall in love while working together.


Familial Love: Liam Neeson and his (step)son deal with the grief of losing Mom


Physical Love: Colin (the British guy) comes to America to get up on hot girls from Wisconsin.


Long Distance Love: Colin Firth and his Portuguese helper:


Sacrificial Love: Laura Linney giving up her crush on her coworker to be with her institutionalized brother.


Cheatin' Love: Alan Rickman being tempted by his secretary.


Infatuation: Liam Neeson's stepson having a crush on the best singer in his class


Taken-for-Granted Love: Emma Thompson about to realize that her husband (Alan Rickman) is having an affair


Platonic Love: Bill Nighy (the rock and roll singer) and his manager:


(I thought these two were actually secretly in gay love, but Wikipedia says that it's platonic, so it must be true. Apparently, straight men like to get drunk and

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watch porn together.)

I've experienced 9 out of the 12 forms of love (as defined by Love Actually)... how about you?

L O V E..

ENG 140: Micro-Theme yoga journal

Sally Kempton’s article, Getting to Know You, talks about her journey to self-discovery. In this rapidly changing world, Kempton proposes thought provoking questions that help her explore her identity. Kempton continues to pursue the answer to her question–“what defines me?” (Kempton 59)—but it was not until years later that she discovered that her answer may not be as simple because she is more complex than she originally thought. The yoga philosophy text, Taittiriya Upanishad, described human beings with five layers which “interpenetrate[s] each other, encasing the soul like the layers of an onion” (Kempton 60). The five layers are: physical sheath, vital energy sheath, mental sheath, wisdom sheath, and bliss sheath. Kempton proposes exercise routines to help reach a deeper level in the sheaths and hopefully transcend into the bliss sheath to eventually realize that life is good.

Kempton points out that our identity is shaped by an unstable environment, causing our sense of self to be lost throughout the events, places, people, and other phenomenon that we encounter. However, I agree with that fact that with the knowledge of our layers we can adjust according as to what areas in ones attitude need to be adjusted. As Kempton struggles to define herself, she reveals the complexity of an individual, which is the primary challenge in exploring her core. Kempton explains how each sheath comes into play as a different identity, starting with the outermost layer known as the physical sheath.

For me personally, I have realized that when I am able to acknowledge my state and thus identify myself, I tend to be more content regardless of the emotions I am experiencing. During yoga sessions especially in shivasana, Theresa and Lezlie would remind us to make peace with ourselves: recognize and acknowledge what you are feeling and then let it go. The path to enlightenment is to be able to liberate my superficial needs from this world. When I hold on to such matters, my mind tends to become clustered and I would dwell in that level and end up preventing myself from proceeding to the next level closer to the core. For example, I remember the time my roommate woke me up by pounding on the door in the middle of the night, thinking the door is locked. I was furious with her inconsideration. She then left to party the rest of the night away, leaving me with futile attempts of falling back asleep. I was way too upset to calm myself down, but by breathing and acknowledging my state, I was able to adjust my attitude towards the situation. To know is to be, and thus in order to discover my inner self, I need to understand what I am experiencing.

After reading Kempton’s article, I am more conscious about how my attitude can influence my identity. As long as I am well-grounded into my beliefs and, as Kempton puts it, “my inner core of goodness” (Kempton 59), then losing my identity in any unstable environment would be not be possible.

Love the way you love me.

It's nearly 6 am. At least in another good 30 minutes it would be...

I am lying in bed, thinking.
Of nothing else but you.
You make my bad day good and
my good day better.
If I should describe our relationship
It would, no doubt, be the ocean and the shore.
The constant attraction between us keeps us near each other
and we would never stop feeling that desire to be close.
Closer.